2021Q3 Reports: SIGLEX

The following SIGLEX Executive Board officers are serving until Spring 2022:

President

• Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

Secretary

• Aline Villavicencio, The University of Sheffield, UK

Executive Board

• Vice-President Elect: Steven Bethard, The University of Arizona, USA
• Vice-Secretary Elect: Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SIGLEX Section Representatives on the Executive Board

• MWE section: Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University, France
• SemEval section: David Jurgens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Members

SIGLEX currently has 359 members. SIGLEX has two sections: Multiword Expressions (MWE) with 276 members, and SemEval with 240 members. In 2020/2021, we conducted an update in the membership registrations, asking members to re-register, update their section membership, (optionally) opt-in for displaying their names on the SIGLEX site, and (optionally) opt-in to emails from the mailing list.

Websites and Mailing Lists

We updated the SIGLEX website and the mailing lists. The website https://siglex.org/ is now backed by https://github.com/acl-org/siglex/. The mailing lists are now backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-members/ and siglex-board@googlegroups.com. The new website and mailing lists for SIGLEX are maintained by Steven Bethard. The MWE section of SIGLEX updated their website and the mailing list following a similar process. The website https://multiword.org/ is now backed by https://github.com/multiword/multiword.github.io. The mailing lists are now backed by Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/siglex-mwe-members and siglex-mwe-board@googlegroups.com. The new website and mailing lists for the MWE section of SIGLEX are maintained by Carlos Ramisch. The SemEval section of SIGLEX continues to be managed by the SemEval organizers (currently Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Guy Emerson, and Natalie Schluter) using the existing website, https://semeval.github.io/, and the mailing list, semeval-organizers@googlegroups.com.

SIGLEX (co-)organises three yearly events: SemEval, *SEM, and MWE:

*SEM 2021

The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2021), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021 and will take place on August 5-6, 2021.

General Chair

- Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica Taiwan

Program Chairs

- Vivi Nastase, University of Zurich

- Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge & PolyAI

Publicity Chair

- Yashar Mehdad, Facebook AI

Publication Chair

- Mark-Christoph Müller, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Area Chairs

Lexical semantics and word representations

-Goran Glavaš, University of Mannheim

-Ryohei Sasano, Nagoya University

Semantic composition and sentence representations

-Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento

-Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen

Discourse, dialogue, and generation

-Asad B. Sayeed, University of Gothenburg

-Thang Vu, University of Stuttgart

Multilinguality

-Johannes Bjerva, Aalborg University

-Edoardo Maria Ponti, Mila Quebec AI Institute & McGill University

Psycholinguistics and semantic processing

-Emily Prud'hommeaux, Boston College

-Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Rochester Institute of Technology

Resources and evaluation

-Nitin Madnani, ETS

-Alla Rozovskaya, CUNY

Theoretical and formal semantics

-Kilian Evang, University of Düsseldorf

Commonsense reasoning and natural language understanding

-Eunsol Choi, University of Texas at Austin

-Antoine Bosselut, Stanford University

Sentiment analysis and argument mining

-Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld

-Thamar Solorio, University of Houston

Semantics in NLP applications

-Els Lefever, Ghent University

-Ivan Habernal, TU Darmstadt

-Valerio Basile, University of Turin

SemEval 2021

The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2021), organized by SIGLEX, will be co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021 virtually in August 2021.

Organizers:

- Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas

- Nathan Schneider, Georgetown University

- Guy Emerson, Cambridge University

- Natalie Schluter, IT University Copenhagen, Google Brain

- Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento

- Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University

SemEval 2021 will include the following 11 shared tasks organized in 4 tracks (task 3 was canceled):

Lexical semantics

Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction

Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation

Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning

Social factors & opinion

Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection

Task 6: Detection of Persuasive Techniques in Texts and Images

Task 7: HaHackathon: Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense

Information in scientific & clinical text

Task 8: MeasEval: Counts and Measurements

Task 9: Statement Verification and Evidence Finding with Tables

Task 10: Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Semantic Processing

Task 11: NLPContributionGraph

Other phenomena

Task 12: Learning with Disagreements

The proceedings contain both task description papers for each of the above tasks, and system description papers describig the systems that participated in these tasks. A total of 11 task description papers and 175 system description papers are included in the proceedings.

SemEval 2022

A total of 12 tasks were selected for SemEval 2022. They will be announced at the SemEval 2021 workshop. For more details about the event, check https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2022/

MWE 2021

The 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021) will be co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021, and will take place on August 6, 2021. This event is the 17th edition of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE). The special focus for this 17th edition of the workshop is on MWE processing in end-user applications and the workshop features a joint panel with WOAH (Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms).

Program Committee Chairs

Paul Cook, University of New Brunswick (Canada)

Jelena Mitrović, University of Passau (Germany)

Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (India)

Carla Parra Escartín, Iconic Translation Machines, RWS Group (Ireland)

Publication Chairs:

Petya Osenova, Sofia University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)

Shiva Taslimipoor, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Communication Chair:

- Carlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille University (France)